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Meat vendors are running out of the beef supply in their stores. Beef is as inclusive an item on every household menu, as the staple diet of rice. Some of the shops in the lower market in Thimphu near the Centenary Farmer’s Market were closed on Wednesday due to shortage …

The Centenary Farmer’s Market (CFM) or the Sunday vegetable market in Thimphu is a hubbub of people – the buyers, the vegetable vendors, children in the locality and children who have tagged along with their parents, and even the dogs that roam the vicinity rustling in the dumpsite, add to …

Although a few cases during the primary elections and recent incidences suggest the ineffectiveness of common forums, the candidates in Lhuentse are very much in favor of the Election Commission of Bhutan (ECB)-instituted common forums. Candidates of the dzongkhag are busy with the gewog level common forum, which has already …

The candidates of Druk Phuensum Tshogpa (DPT) and People’s Democratic Party (PDP) ran their constituents through the usual drill of sharing points from their respective party manifestos, ideologies, and promises to fulfill the pledges if they win in the upcoming general elections. The PDP candidate Karma Dorji, however, pulled a …

A 43-year-old non national worker succumbed to his injuries on Monday morning. He was hit by a stone on his head at Beychhu in Wangduephodrang. The deceased was working as a boomer operator at a construction site in Punatshangchhu II. On the unfortunate day, a stone had fallen on a …

Post-primaries, the Druk Nyamrup Tshogpa (DNT) made it as a hot topic in every news segment, especially after seven of its candidates, which includes its president and vice president, joined the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). The party still remains the flavor of the week, and now the burning topic for …

The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has filed a complaint with the ECB on Wednesday against Druk Phuensum Tshogpa (DPT) on baseless allegations, indented misinformation, and blatant lies by DPT President in several places during his recent campaign speeches in the general round of elections. PDP’s spokesperson Damcho Dorji said just …

At Gaeddu College, nobody planned anything. Some professors never wrote lesson plans or planned anything for that matter. Some never used textbooks. I later found out why. Incredibly, even the college calendar was bogus. I kept count of the unofficial, non-teaching days. I lost forty eight (48) hours or four …

The wife of the former Education Minister buying land near the Education City site through a loan taken by the former Education Minister may not be illegal, but it does represent an enormous conflict of interest. The Education Ministry is one of the key stakeholders in the multi-billion Education City …

A Royal Monetary Authority (RMA) and World Bank publication, ‘Connecting the Disconnected-Coping Strategies of the Financially Excluded in Bhutan’, was launched at the Taj Tashi hotel on Wednesday in the presence of World Bank and RMA representatives. Improving access to financial services and building of inclusive financial systems are gaining …